Improvement in oil-tanks



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UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE.

ELI VVILDER, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-TANKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,512, dated August 1, 1876 application filed June 2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELI F. WILDER, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Containing and Drawing Oils and other Liquids; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the ac companying drawings, making part of this of the same; Fig. 4,-a vertical section, cutting,

from front to rear, showing the construction for containing oil or otherliquid in a story be low the one in which it is drawn; Fig. 5, a view showing a modification of the construction.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in.all of the figures.

My invention is for the purpose of storing liquids in quantity, particularly oils, in stores and manut'actories, wherein the same may be stored in safety, and without waste or deterioration, and from which the same may be drawn in small quantities, and measured with accuracy, ease, and convenience.

The apparatus is constructed so'th'at the oi. or other liquid may be stored either in the same story as that in which it is drawn, or in a story below and the same pumping device used therein is applied to both arrangements, and is used for filling the containingtanks from barrels and other vessels, as well as for drawing the liquid from the tanks to be used or delivered to purchasers.

My improvements will be specified in order in the following description of the apparatus, beginning with the description of the construction for storing and drawing the oils or other liquids in the same story or on the same floor of the building.

I employ in this apparatus a tank or reservoir, A, in which the oil or other liquid is kept in quantity; an elevated reservoir or standing fountain, B, into which a limited quantity of the oil is pumped from the main tank A, to be drawn from for use or sale 3 a sink, (3, into which any oil or liquid that may drip from the drawingoff spigot falls and is caught; and a drip-reservoir, D, into which the drippings descend from the sink, and are kept without exposureand deterioration. Ialso connect with the standing fountain B a measuring compartment or chamber, E, from which a determined quantity may be drawn without separate measuring.

The standing fountain B is located at a sufiicient height to draw from conveniently through the spigot a by the gravity of the liquid, the can or vessel into which the liquid is drawn resting or being held over the sink 0. The tank or reservoir A extends upward back of the standing fountain B, wholly or partially, and reaches down to the floor of the room, or as far as convenient. It is preferably made of sheet metal, set in a wooden case, as represented. The pump G, by which the oil or other liquid is drawn from the tank A and elevated into the standing fountain B, is located, as represented, in the standing fountain itself, although this location is not essential. Its handle is of bent form, extending first horizontally over the top of the fountain, and thence downward in front thereof, so that working the same backward and forward horizontally produces a vertical movement of the pump-piston, it being pivoted at or near the bend. Its barrel is connected by a three-way cock, b, with a pipe or tube, 01, which reaches back into, and down nearly tothe bottom of, the tank A, and with a short coupling-tube, f, to which may be coupled either a pipe, 9, reaching down into the drip-receiver D, for again elevating the drippings into the fountain, or to a flexible pipe, (not shown in the drawings,) connecting with a barrel or other vessel containing oil or other liquid to be pumped into the tank A. This three-way cock is so constructed that, when its handle 0 is in a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 2, both communications with the pipes below are closed, and the liquid is retained in .the standing fountain. When the handle is drawn forward into an oblique position communication is opened with the pipe d, leading from the tank A, and when the handle is pushed back into an oblique position, communication is opened with the coupling tube or pipe f, to

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draw either from the drip-receiver D, or to fill the tank A from a barrel or other containingvessel;

The same pump thus serves all the purposes of the apparatus for supplying and emptying the tank A, for supplying the standing fountain B, and for emptying the drip-receiver D.

To fill the tank A from a barrel, a flexible pipe leading therefrom is coupled to the tube f of the pump, and the handle 0 of the threeway cock is thrown back. On working the pump, the liquid is drawn from the barrel into the standing fountain B, and from that it flows through an aperture, h, in the separating-partition, and descends by its gravity into the tank A. This aperture, opening from the top of the standing fountain to the top of the tank, serves also for the passage of air from the one to the other as the fountain is filled and the tank is correspondingly emptied.

When, however, the reservoir or tank A is located in the story below the drawing apparatus, as represented in Fig. 4, I prefer to employ another device, to avoid the necessity of pumping, since the oil or other liquid can be caused to flow by its own gravity into the For this purpose I employ a large receiving-funnel, H, Fig. 4, located between inclined ways I, whereon the barrel L is brought into position over the funnel, and opened with bung downward, so that the contents will run directly into the same, and from this funnel a pipe, 70, extends horizontally, and is connected with a vertical pipe, l, leading down into the tank A below The pipe Z also may extend up through the drip-receiver l) into the sink 0, where connection may be formed between it and the pump. This pipe I may be used to return the drippings from the sink to the tank or to the drip-receiver, and be sealed at the top. An air tube, m, may form communication between the tank A through the pipe Z, as shown, and the top of the standing fountain. If the drippings are drained into the drip-receiver D, this air-tube will also communicate therewith. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4 the pipe (Z leads directly up from the tank A through the drip-receiver D to the The measuring-chamber E is connected with the standing fountain B by means of a three way cock, 1), located in, or communicating with, the drawing-spigot b, so that one spigot serves both to draw from the standing fountain and from the measuringcompartment. A pipe. orpassage, r, leads from the standing fountain to the three-way cock, and another pipe or passage, 8, leads from the measuring-chamber thereto. The three-way cock also forms thereby the communication between the standing fountain and measuring-chamber for filling the latter. When the handle t of the three-way cock reaches directly forward, this communication between the fountain and chamber is made, and the spigot is closed, When the handle is turned to the left, as shown in the drawings, communication is made directly from the standing fountain to the spigot; and when the handle is turned to the right, communication is opened from the measuring-chamber to the spigot.

The ineasnring-chamber is formed to hold an accurately-measured quantity of liquidsuch as a quart, a gallon, or just enough to fill a small oiler; also, the liquid can be drawn unmeasured directly from the standing fountain in any desired quantity. A glass tube, M, is connected with, and reaches up in front of, the measuring-chamber, to show whether the chamber is full or empty. The whole apparatus is inclosed in a wooden case, P, and the chamber over the sink 0 is closed by a sliding door, Q, which is slid down to open the apparatus for use.

A modified construction is shown in Fig.5. Here the front door Q swings out sidewise on hinges, and the lid R, covering the standing fountain, also swings over to the same side, and rests on the outwardly-swung door, as shown. Thus a supported shelf is formed by the lid, on which an oiler-tray may rest while filling the oilers, or on which any other vessel may for the time be placed.

What I claim as my invention,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Thecombination of the drip-reservoir D with the tank A, standing fountain B,and'

sink 0, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. The combination of the measuringchamher E with the standing fountain B, connecting passages r s, and spigot a, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

3. The partition separating the tank A and standing fountain B, and provided with the passage h, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

4. The combination of the tank A with the standing fountain B, the former arranged to extend upward back of, or opposite to, the latter, so that when the tank is filled the oil will gravitate to the standing fountain, and vice versa, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

ELI F. WILDER. Witnesses:

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